Novelist, actress and noted feminist Mira Sethi made it clear she doesn’t work with problematic people. Speaking to author Muneeb Qadir on women’s rights at a talk, Sethi said she was offered a role on the show Main Manto Nahi Hoon, but decided to turn it down because of the misogynistic views of the show’s writer, Khalilur Rehman Qamar.

A video of the interview was recently shared on social media by Qadir. In the video, Mira said she had really wanted to take the role and work alongside Humayun Saeed and Sajal Ali, whom she previously worked with on Kuch Ankahi. However, she said she turned down the offer because she felt her vocal feminism would be pointless if she worked with someone who “said such strange things about women” as Rehman has.

Sethi’s refusal to work with Qamar makes sense when one considers just how unapologetically anti-women he has been throughout the years. From abusing a female activist on live television, to blaming feminism for the gruesome murder of Noor Mukadam, his misogyny knows no bounds.